Persistent organic pollutants in food: contamination sources, health effects and detection methods

W Guo, B Pan, S Sakkiah, G Yavas, W Ge… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) present in foods have been a major concern for food
safety due to their persistence and toxic effects. To ensure food safety and protect human …

Endocrine disrupting chemicals and breast cancer: a systematic review of epidemiological studies

MLY Wan, VA Co, H El-Nezami - Critical Reviews in Food Science …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) are ubiquitous substances
that are found in our everyday lives, including pesticides, plasticizers, pharmaceutical …

[图书][B] The skeptical environmentalist: measuring the real state of the world

B Lomborg - 2003 - degruyter.com
Some books appear on the market with big media hype. Television talk shows celebrate
their authors. But after waiting a few months on a bookstore's shelf for a buyer, most …

Health effects of chronic pesticide exposure: cancer and neurotoxicity

MCR Alavanja, JA Hoppin, F Kamel - Annu. Rev. Public Health, 2004 - annualreviews.org
Pesticides are widely used in agricultural and other settings, resulting in continuing human
exposure. Epidemiologic studies indicate that, despite premarket animal testing, current …

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT): ubiquity, persistence, and risks.

V Turusov, V Rakitsky, L Tomatis - Environmental health …, 2002 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Due to uncontrolled use for several decades, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT),
probably the best known and most useful insecticide in the world, has damaged wildlife and …

[图书][B] Toxic exposures: Contested illnesses and the environmental health movement

P Brown - 2007 - degruyter.com
| 44| BREAST CANCER every three minutes and another woman will die of breast cancer
every twelve minutes. The lifetime likelihood of a woman's getting breast cancer is one in …

DDT and breast cancer in young women: new data on the significance of age at exposure

BA Cohn, MS Wolff, PM Cirillo… - Environmental health …, 2007 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Previous studies of DDT and breast cancer assessed exposure later in life
when the breast may not have been vulnerable, after most DDT had been eliminated, and …

Understanding the human health effects of chemical mixtures.

DO Carpenter, K Arcaro, DC Spink - Environmental health …, 2002 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Most research on the effects of chemicals on biologic systems is conducted on one chemical
at a time. However, in the real world people are exposed to mixtures, not single chemicals …

DDT and human health

J Beard… - Science of the total …, 2006 - Elsevier
1, 1, 1-Trichloro-2, 2′ bis (p-chlorophenyl) ethane (DDT) was the first widely used synthetic
pesticide and is extremely persistent in both the environment and the human body. The …

Pesticides and breast cancer risk: a review of DDT, DDE, and dieldrin.

SM Snedeker - Environmental health perspectives, 2001 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Established risk factors for breast cancer explain breast cancer risk only partially. Hence,
there has been interest in evaluating what role environmental chemicals, especially those …